The South Staffordshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence for only 68 years. The regiment was created in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the
Cap badge of the South Staffordshire Regiment.
List of casualties from the Regiment during the First World War at Tyne Cot
Soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment, part of 1st Airlanding Brigade of 1st Airborne Division, marching on a road between Oosterbeek and Arnhem. 19 September 1944
A rifleman of the 1st Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment wearing a light-coloured oversuit for camouflage against the dunes during training at Mersa Matruh, 25 October 1940.
The Staffordshire Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Prince of Wales's Division. The regiment was formed in 1959 by the amalgamation of the South Staffordshire Regiment
South Staffordshire Regiment
…Army battalion after the Second World War, the regiment was amalgamated, in 1959, with the North Staffordshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's) to form the Staffordshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's) which was later, in 2007, amalgamated with the Cheshire Regiment and the Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment to form the Mercian Regiment…
Troops from C Company, 1st Battalion, engaged in a live firing exercise during Operation Granby, 6 January 1991.
Graves of two soldiers of the South Staffordshire Regiment, killed 1918, in the Mory Abbey Military Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France